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6 Day Safari: Lake Manyara, Serengeti, Tarangire and Ngorongoro
This will be a fantastic tour and safari! Drive to the best and most popular destinations for tours and game drives in the world! See and take photos while on the way to the Manyara, Serengeti, Ngorongoro and Tarangire National Parks.
Day 1: Arusha - Lake Manyara National Park
After your safari briefing, leave from the hotel in Arusha Town and drive on Tarmac Road 130km to Lake Manyara National Park. The lake occupies a large portion of the park, the forest starts just when you cross the park gate along the base of the Great Rift Valley and the hot springs are located to the west of the park. The park is home to the famous tree climbing lion as well as buffalo, giraffe, hippo, baboons, flamingo, ostrich, geese and so many more. After your picnic lunch, take off for an afternoon game drive. In the late afternoon, drive to camp for dinner and your overnight stay.-
Day 2: Lake Manyara - Serengeti National Park
After breakfast head towards the Serengeti National Park by way of the beautiful high lying farmland of Karatu and the Ngorongoro Conservation area. Leaving the highlands behind, you descend into the heart of wild Africa; into the Serengeti National Park with its endless plains rolling in the distance as far as the eye can see. Head to the central park area, known as the Seronera area, one of the richest wildlife habitats in the park. The Seronera River provides a valuable water source to this area of the park and attracts wildlife well represented of most of the Serengeti’s species. Arrive in time to enjoy lunch and then head out for an afternoon game drive. Dinner and your overnight stay in the Seronera Camp. -
Day 3: Serengeti National Park
After breakfast enjoy an early morning game drive along the Sogore River circuit, which loops into the plains south of the Seronera River. This is a good location for spotting lion, gazelle, topi, ostrich and cheetah. The Visitor Center, close to the Serengeti Seronera Lodge and public campsites, is well worth a visit after this morning game drive. This nicely designed center offers some interesting wildlife displays as well as a gift shop where you can purchase information leaflets and maps of the area. In the afternoon, follow the Kopjes circuit going counterclockwise around the Maasai Kopjes. On this tour you have the chance to view more lion and some formidably large cobra. Dinner and your overnight stay in the Seronera Camp. -
Day 4: Serengeti Plain - Ngorongoro Crater
After breakfast, depart to Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Stopover at Olduvai Gorge which boasts history dating back to the dawn of time. It was here that the anthropologists, Drs. Lois and Mary Leakey discovered the skulls of “Nutcracker Man” and “Handy Man” both very significant links in the chain of human evolution. Arrive at the lodge in time for lunch and then descend over 600m into the crater to view the wildlife for a half day safari tour. Dinner and your overnight stay at Ngorongoro Simba Campsite. -
Day 5: Ngorongoro Crater - Tarangire National Park
After breakfast depart for the Tarangire National Park. The park runs along the Tarangire River and is mainly made up of low-lying hills on the Great Rift Valley floor. Its natural vegetation consists mainly of Acacia woodland, giant African Baobab trees and huge swamp areas. Both the river and the swamps act like a magnet for the local wildlife during the Tanzania dry season. The Tarangire National Park is home to three rare species of animals, the Greater Kudu, the Fringed-eared Oryx and the Ashy Starlings. After a picnic lunch, head out for an afternoon game drive. Dinner and your overnight stay in the Tarangire National Park, Tarangire Campsite. -
Day 6: Tarangire National Park - Arusha
Enjoy a final game drive before breakfast. Return to camp for breakfast and then transfer back to Arusha where you will book a hotel for your overnight stay. This is there your tour will end.
Included
- Government imposed increase of park fees and/or taxes
- Park fees (for non-residents)
- All activities (unless labeled as optional)
- Meals (as specified in the day-by- day section)
- Drinking water (on all days)
- All accommodation (unless listed as upgrade)
- Roundtrip airport transfer
- Camping equipment
- Sleeping bag
- A professional driver/guide
- All transportation (unless labeled as optional)
- All Taxes/VAT
- 2 nights accommodation at Arusha before and after safari
Excluded
- International flights (from/to home)
- Tips (tipping guideline US$10.00 pp per day)
- Personal items (souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)
- Some meals (as specified in the day-by-day)
Daily Group DEPARTURE
3 Days group camping Tour: Tarangire, Masai village & Kilimanjaro trekking
Day 1: Arusha to Tarangire
After early breakfast, proceed for a full day game drive at Tarangire National Park with picnic with picnic lunches, and overnight at Arusha Tourist Inn Hotel. It’s the national park which herds of up to 300 elephants scrape the waterless river bed for alternative streams, while nomadic wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, impala, gazelle, hartebeest and eland mass the decrease lagoons. It's the most attentiveness of wildlife outside the Serengeti ecosystem - a smorgasbord for predators and the one place in Tanzania where dry-country antelope such as the stately fringe-eared Oryx and peculiar long-necked gerenuk are regularly practical. The only national park that hold the migrant during the dry season and welcoming home of different species of animal. Later in the evening back to Arusha FOR OVERNIGHT AT
HOTEL
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Day 2: Masaai Village
After Breakfast Departure from the Hotel with lunch box together with guide and drive to Monduli Juu is a collection of four small Masai villages namely Emairete, Enguiki, Eluwai and Mfereji. Emairete comprises of a wonderful crater where, in former times, the cattle of only medicine men were supposed to graze. Enguiki village is named after its famous pastures. Eluwai is a village called after the trees where certain small ants have their habitat and that are whistling in the wind. Mfereji is a village down the escarpment that, a long time ago, develop from a place where a South African lived who pulled a ditch down to bring water from the Monduli Mountains. This is what you can experience on this walking tour:
A climbing trip through the evergreen rain forest where you’ll experience the trees, the birds and other animals of that habitat.
A medical trip where you’ll feel and smell different medicinal herbs and visit a Maasai traditional healer.
A warm welcome in Naramatu: a small ‘factory’ where Maasai jewels are made.
Traditional ’nyama choma’ with our Maasai warriors in ‘Orpul’ where you’ll taste the meat yourself.
A rest at astonishing panorama overlooking the Rift valley, Oldonyo Lengai, Lake Natron.
The story of the secret cultural differences between Maasai and waarusha.
Later in the evening back to Arusha for Dinner and overnight at Hotel around Arusha town -
Day 3: Arusha to Kilimanjaro, MANDARA HUT
At the first day you have to drive about 2 hrs through Kilimanjaro in the morning the semi-tropical foothills to Marangu area which situated on the south-eastern side of the mountain. As you drive, there is usually some admirable view of the snow-capped peak of the mountain. On arrival at Marangu gate, you meet your team of guides and porters, pick up any last minute supplies for the trek, and head to the entrance of Mount Kilimanjaro National Park to register for the climb. From the cluster of buildings at the gate it is some four to five hours walk through patches of coffee plantation and dense rain forest to Mandara Hut. The forest teems with brightly-coloured bird life, colobus and other varieties of monkey. The flora includes numerous mosses, lichens and flowers, as well as delicate orchids. If the skies are clear you may have fine views over the town of Moshi lying at the boundary of the plain far underneath. Mandara Hut is a collection of basic, A-frame mountain huts with bunk beds - quite adequate for your needs - where you inevitably meet up with fellow trekkers who are bent on the same goal. Late in the evening back to Arusha, Overnight stay at Hotel. At the end of your Tour we will drop you off at the airport.
Included
- 4 nights budget camping accommodation.
- Meals; Full Board - Breakfast, Hot Lunch or Picnic Lunch and Dinner while on Safari.
- All Transfers and Transport, Park Fees, Hotel Accommodation.
- Game viewing activities as stated in the above tour/safari description.
- Services of a Safari Driver/ Guide.
- Safari tent, Safari cook and camping supplies.
- 2nights Hotel Accommodation before and after trekking
- All trekking equipment's Airport pick up and drop off
Excluded
- International air fares.
- Any required Visas.
- Travel Insurance.
- Items of a Personal Nature.
- Tips and Gratitudes to Safari Staff.

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